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  • Rudyard KiplingRIKKI-TIKKI-TAVIand other storiesRikki-Tikki-Tavi • Toomai of the ElephantsThe Miracle of Purun Bhagat • Quiquern • The White Seal In 1892, the newly married Kiplings took a cottage inVermont. In this honeymoon year, Kipling did not write as much as usual, buthe did produce a ‘wolf-story called “Mowgli’s Brothers” ’, and he then workedintermittently until 1895, on what were to be published (in two volumes) as TheJungle Books. The title derives from the stories featuring Mowgli, but in factthose tales are intermingled with others set elsewhere and with quite differentcharacters.The Jungle Books are normally regarded as children’sliterature and of course they are marvelously successful as such — quite assuccessful as Just So Stories, which Kipling wrote a few years later, and whichalso take as their theme, the character of animals. Both books reveal Kipling’slove of language as an almost musical medium, his deep affection especially forIndia, and his refusal to patronize or simplify for the sake of a youngaudience. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is perhaps the story most obviously aimedat children in this collection. The hero of the story is Rikki himself, thelittle mongoose who adopts the English family in the Segowlee bungalow, but themost important human character is the son Teddy, whose life he saves. Teddy ispassive and dull compared to the Indian or Anglo-Indian children Kipling lovesto describe (Kim, Little Toomai): all the spirit and zest of the tale isdevoted to the resourceful mongoose that uses speed and skill to outwit andfinally destroy the great cobras who lord it over the property. Like Rikki, Little Toomai, in Toomai of the Elephants, mustexperience a rite of passage. Rikki makes his first kills; Toomai, having goneon a wild ride through the jungle, sees what few others have seen — theelephants’ midnight dance — and thus is ‘initiated and free of all thejungles’. Kipling loves to see the world with the freshness of a child’s vision— for Little Toomai, life in the camp when they catch the wild elephants is farmore interesting than the dull life of the Cawnpore elephant-lines, while hisfather prefers the safety of the plain. Perhaps only a child has the innocenceand imagination to witness the great gathering of the elephants… The Miracle of the Purun Bhagat is also set in India, and isperhaps the most purely beautiful piece of storytelling in the collection. Thisis very much the world of Kim — the ‘long, white, dusty Indian road’, the‘silence and the space’ of the Himalayan foothills. Purun Bhagat has abandonedearthly power and prestige to seek spiritual enlightenment, but he must on onelast occasion use his worldly authority to save the villagers who sustain him:like the lama in Kim, he finds that it is impossible wholly to leave behind thethings of this life. Kipling shows us that the natural is more wonderful thanthe supernatural: Purun’s ‘miracle’ is actually the product of his absoluteintimacy with the natural world. The White Seal tells the story of Kotick who, beingdifferent from his fellows, sets out to discover a safe haven for theseal-nurseries and must then persuade the others to leave the familiar behindand risk encountering the new. Kipling perhaps intends an allegory about thehuman fear of change and the role of a leader who stands out from the crowd —but, if so, it is all implicit and done with the lightest of touches. Quiquern is the mythical ‘phantom of a gigantic toothlessdog…supposed to live in the far North’, seen by two starving and desperateEskimo hunters of Baffin Land. Kipling’s evocation of the utter bleakness ofthis northern territory is quite as vivid as his depiction of India. As inRikki-Tikki-Tavi and The White Seal, his is a story of survival, but in thiscase the emphasis is human rather than animal. Once again, Kipling gives us anatural explanation for the supernatural: the Quiquern turns out to be two lostdogs whose harnesses have become entangled and who flit before the hallucinatinghunters until they are all eventually reunited and the village is saved. Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. Educated inEngland from 1871, he returned to India in 1882 and worked as a journalist,soon acquiring a reputation for cleverly crafted short stories and skillfulverse. Hugely popular in his lifetime, he eventually settled at Bateman’s inSussex. He produced a vast body of work, including the much-loved children’stales, The Jungle Books and Just So Stories and his masterpiece of adult fiction,Kim (also available on Naxos AudioBooks). Notes by Perry Keenlyside
  • • 作品列表
    • • CD01
      • 作品编号：23251  Rikki-tikki-Tavi

      • Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

      • Nag, The Big Black Cobra

      • Chuchundra, The Muskrat

      • Darzee, The Tailor-Bird

      • Nagina And The Last Egg

      • CD01
      • 作品编号：38680  Toomai of the Elephants

      • Toomai of the Elephants

      • Petersen Sahib

      • Into the Garo forest

      • The elephants dance

      • CD01
      • 作品编号：38681  The Miracle of Purun Bhagat

      • The Miracle of Purun Bhagat

      • CD02
      • 作品编号：38681  The Miracle of Purun Bhagat

      • Bhagat's wanderings end

      • The mountain is falling

      • CD02
      • 作品编号：38682  Quiquern

      • Quiquern

      • A savage autumn

      • The tornait has spoken

      • They follow Quiquern

      • The ice breaks

      • CD02
      • 作品编号：38683  The White Seal

      • The White Seal

      • Seal hunters

      • The search for sea-cow

      • An island of safety